I am 13 years old and was at school outside having lunch with my friends when a group of school year 11 boys come up to us.
Then then start asking us if we want to give them blow jobs or f*** them. At this point I’m bright red, embarrassed and ashamed.
One of them noticed and got one of his mates to help block me off from my friends who didn’t notice because of the other guy. They then blatantly looked me up and down and had a convocation rating me out of 10 right in front of me and also talked about various girls that they had ‘done’.
I always thought that in a situation like that I would be strong enough to defend myself, able to tell them to back off, go away you’re in my personal space and I’m not comfortable. Sadly that wasn’t the case.
I hate slut shaming but the only thing that came to my mind was what I managed to stutter out, a very weak and quiet ‘man-whores’ one of them leaned up close and said, ‘that’s not a bad thing babe’ and they finally left.
I felt so weak and pathetic to the point that I dimmed it down to ‘not a big deal’ and pretended I was okay. It wasn’t.
Harassment is a real issue and I for one am sick of it.
– Anonymous
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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